Improved rolling-pin



UNITED STATES C. E. PHILLIPS, OF ABINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED ROLLING-PIN.

Specification forming part ofV Letters Patent No. 47,979, dated May 30,1865.

T0 all whom it may concern;

Beit known that I, OHARLEs E. PHILLIPS, of Abington, in the county ofPlymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Rolling-Pins; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing description, taken in connection with the accompanying plateof drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exactspecification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature andprinciples of my said improvements by which my invention may bedistinguished from all others of a similar class, together with suchparts as I claim and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent.

The present invention relates to a rollingpin so constructed as tocontain within itself the various utensils used in the preparing ofpastry, cake, &c., thus eoonomizing space and saving of the time usuallyspent in collecting the separate articles when scattered about indifferent directions, as they are often apt to be for want of a properreceptacle to contain them.

I Will now proceed to 'describe in detail my improvements, together withthe manner in which the above-mentioned results are obtained.

The accompanying plate of drawings represent my improvements.

Figure lis an elevation of my improved combination rolling-pin. Fig. 2is a central vertical longitudinalsection of the same. Fig. 3 is a sideview of a nutmeg-grater, enlarged. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view ofa toothed roller or pastry cutter. Fig. 5 is an end and Fig. 6 is asideview of a pastry-smoother, Ste., enlarged. Fig. 7 is an enlarged detailcentral vertical section of a biscuit and cake cutter, and Fig. 8 is atop view of the same.

a a a in the drawings represent a rolling-pin made with a receptacle oraperture, b b, within it, suitable for receiving a nutmeg-grater, c c,and a toothed roller or pastry-cutter, d d. On the top of the grater cc, at one end, a ring or band, e e, is formed for the purpose'of holdingthe handle of the toothed rooler d d, which is used for cutting andornamenting pastry, &c. One end, f f, of the roller a a is made of tinor other metal, and so formed as to t over the roller a a and to serve,when detached from it, as a ring to cut out biscuits, &c. -To thisremovable end f f is attached a handle, g g, also of tin or other metal,so formed as to receive and hold a wooden handle, .It h. The tin orother metal handle g g is use d for cutis formed at one end in the shapeshown in Figs. 5 and 6, and is used, when removed from the tin handle gg, for the purpose o f smoothing and escaloping the pastry, and whenattached to the tin handle g g forms with it the handle to the roller aa. Y

From the above description it will be seen that a rolling-pin isconstructed which not only answers all the purposes of those heretoforein use, but is supplied with the requisite means of containing, in acompact form, the other various implements used in the making of pastry,cake, Sto.

Having thus described my improvements, I shall state my claims asfollows:

What I claim as my invention, and desire to have secured tome by LettersPatent, is-

1. Forming a rolling pin at one end or through its whole extent hollow,or with a suitable aperture or receptacle for receiving such implementsas are generally used in the manipulation and ornamentation of pastry,8vo.

2. Combining with the rolling-pina removable handle which will alsoserve as a cutter, as described.

3. The combination and arrangement of the removable handle and cutter fj' with the pastry-smdother h h.

4. The combination of the rolling-pin a a a, nutmeg-grater c c, andbiscuit-cutter f f, as described.

GHAS. E. PHILLIPS. Vitnesses:

JAEED WHITMAN, EPHM. WHITMAN.

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